Storage battery.



G. M. W. GOETTLING.

STORAGE BATTERY.

APPLIGATIQN FILED MNA, 1909 Patented Nov. 2, 1909.

the glass plates. The plates 8 are frequently g ported ai both ,sides by the two bars and the called upon t0 sustain four hundred pounds or more and also it is a common practice of the' Workmen to walk on top of the batteries, so that their weight often comes on the glass plates, and my insulator bars help to distribute this Weight as well as the weight of the active plates 5, 6. The main object of my insulator bars, however, is the positive s acm a art of the ears T of the active P g P plates which rest in. the grooves 3 and are each side of the battery, separate from said separated by the' barriers or ribat), so that they cannot possibly buckle together and short-circuit. A

Various other practical advantages of the invention will appear tohthose skilled in the art without further description.

As already intimated, l. do not intend to restrict myself to the precise constructional details except as otherwise stated in the claims.

Having described my invention, what .l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is,

l. In a storage battery, the combination with a series'of successive battery plates, opposite supporting plates extending transversely of the adjacent ends of said series of plates, and a removable insulator bar at each side of the battery, separate from said supporting plates and from said series of battery plates, provided on its under side with a longitudinal alining recess removably fitting lengthwise along the topedge of the adjacent supporting plate and on its upper side with a 'series of transverse 'grooves spaced apart in accordance with said battery plates, one groove for each of the successive battery plates, and each battery plate l having at each of its upper corners a later- Y ally projecting ear for suspending the plate i 1n the adjacent transverse groove of the adjacent ba r, whereby each battery plate of the batteryis suspended at its' opposite upper corners in the transverse grooves of the opposite removable insulator bars .and is suptwo supj'iorting pl:=tes and whereby the weight ot all the battery plates of the battery is distributed throughout the length of the supportingl plates by means ol said two removable'insulator bars. i

ln a storage battery, the combination with a .seriesl ol succes. ve battery plates,

`opposite supporting plates extending transversely ot the adjacent ends of Said series ot plates, and a removable insulator bar at supporting plates and from said series of battery plates, provided on its under side with a longitudinal alining rccessremovably tilting lengthwise along the top edge of the adjacent supl'iorting plate and on its upper side with .a series of transverse grooves spaced apart in accordance with said battery plates, one groove for each of the suc' ported at bolli sides by the two bars and the two supporting plates, and whereby the weight of all the battery plates of the batterj,r is' distributed throughout the length of the supporting plates by means of said two removable insulator bars,

ln testimony whereof, l have signed my, name to this specification, in the presence ot' two subscribing witnesses.

M. J. Si'ALnirvo, IlnwAno h/lnxwnmi. 

